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It would not be an exaggeration to say that during the last century, most especially during and since the 1960s, the language of spirituality has become one of the most significant ways in which the sacred has come to be understood and judged in the West, and, increasingly, elsewhere. Whether it is true that ‘spirituality’ has eclipsed ‘religion’ in Western settings remains debatable. What is incontestable is that the language of spirituality, together with practices (most noticeably spiritual, complementary, and alternative medicine), has become a major feature of the sacred dimensions of contemporary modernity. Equally incontestably, spirituality is a growing force in all those developing countries where its presence is increasingly felt among the cosmopolitan elite, and where spiritual forms of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine are thriving.

This new four-volume Major Work collection from Routledge provides a coherent compilation of landmark texts which cannot be ignored by those intent on making sense of what is happening to the sacred as spirituality—more exactly what is taken to be spirituality—develops as an increasingly important lingua franca, series of practices, and as a humanistic ethicality.

Contents

Spirituality in the Modern World

Within Religious Tradition and Beyond

Volume One - Overview: Spirituality, the Perennial and the Zoned

1. Spirituality

1. Paul Heelas 2011: ‘On Making Some Sense of Spirituality’

2. Paul Heelas 2011: ‘On Some Major Issues’

3. Paul Heelas 2011: ‘On the Volumes’

2. On formulating the perennial and the zoned

(a) Perennial spirituality within and beyond religious - tradition -

4. Aldous Huxley 2004 [1945]: The Perennial Philosophy. An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West. New York: Perennial, pp. vii-xi.

5. Harold Bloom 1993: extracts from ‘Enthusiasm, Gnosticism, American Orphism’ and ‘The New Age: California Orphism’, in The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation, New York: Simon & Schuster, pp. 45-58; 181-188.

29. Pontifical Council for Culture and Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue 2003: extract from ‘Jesus Christ The Bearer of the Water of Life. A Christian Reflection on the "New Age"’, Manchester: CTS Manchester, pp. 38-41.

32. Phillip C. Lucas 1992: ‘The New Age Movement and the Pentecostal/Charismatic Revival: Distinct Yet Parallel Phases of a Fourth Great Awakening?’, in James R. Lewis and J. Gordon Melton (eds) Perspectives on the New Age. Albany: State University of New York Press, pp. 189-211.

64. Mary Farrell Bedenarowski 1992: ‘The New Age Movement and Feminist Spirituality: Overlapping Conversations at the End of the Century’, in James R. Lewis and J. Gordon Melton (eds) Perspectives on the New Age, Albany: State University of New York Press, pp. 167-178.

71. Steven M. Tipton 1983: ‘Making the World Work: Ideas of Social Responsibility in the Human Potential Movement’, in Eileen Barker (ed.) Of Gods and Men. New Religious Movements in the West, Macon: Mercer Press, pp. 265-282.

76. Miguel Farias and Pehr Granqvist 2007: ‘The Psychology of the New Age’, in Daren Kemp and James R. Lewis (eds) Handbook of New Age, Leiden: Brill, pp. 123-150.

77. Klas Nevrin 2008: ‘Empowerment and Using the Body in Modern Postural Yoga’, in Mark Singleton and Jean Bryne (eds) Yoga in the Modern World. Contemporary Perspectives. London: Routledge, pp. 121-139.

82. Dick Houtman and Peter Mascini 2002: ‘Why do Churches become Empty, while New Age Grows? Secularization and Religious Change in the Netherlands’, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 41 (3), pp. 455-73.

88. Mark R. Mullins 1992: ‘Japan’s New Age and Neo-New Religions: Sociological Interpretations’, in James R. Lewis and J. Gordon Melton (eds) Perspectives on the New Age. Albany: State University of New York Press, pp. 232-246.

89. Inken Prohl 2007: ‘The Spiritual World: Aspects of New Age in Japan’, in Daren Kemp and James R. Lewis (eds) Handbook of New Age, Leiden: Brill, pp. 359-374.

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